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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Introduction

Authors : Richard Heinberg, David Fridley

Published in: Our Renewable Future

Publisher: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics

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Abstract

THE NEXT FEW DECADES will see a profound and all-encompassing energy transformation throughout the world. Whereas society now derives the great majority of its energy from fossil fuels, by the end of the century we will depend primarily on renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal power.

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Footnotes
1
United Nations, Framework Convention on Climate Change, Adoption of the Paris Agreement, FCCC/CP/2015/L.9 (December 12, 2015), http://​unfccc.​int/​resource/​docs/​2015/​cop21/​eng/​l09.​pdf.​
 
2
Steven Mohr et al., “Projection of World Fossil Fuels by Country,” Fuel 141 (2015): 120–135, doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2014.10.030.
 
3
Andrew Nikiforuk, The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude (Vancouver, BC: Greystone Books, 2012
 
4
4. Mikael Höök et al., “Hydrocarbon liquefaction: Viability as a peak oil mitigation strategy,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 372, no. 2006 (2014): 20120319, doi:10.1098/rsta.2012.0319. David Murphy, Charles Hall, and Bobby Powers, “New perspectives on the energy return on (energy) investment (EROI) of corn ethanol,” Environment, development and sustainability 13, no. 1 (2011): 179–202.
 
5
See chapter 5 in Michael Carolan, Cheaponomics: The High Cost of Low Prices (New York: Routledge, 2014).
 
Metadata
Title
Introduction
Authors
Richard Heinberg
David Fridley
Copyright Year
2016
Publisher
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
Book
Our Renewable Future

Print ISBN: 978-1-61091-831-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-61091-780-3

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-780-3_1